INCREASED'BENEFITS
CONDITION OF UNEMPLOYED
PALMERSTON SUPPORT
(Special to the "Evening Post.")
PALMERSTON N., This Day.
■ "I think we can tell the St. Kilda Borough Council that we will always be happy to co-operate in any effort made to alleviate the condition of the unemployed," ' declared the Mayor (Mr. A. E. Mansford), when the City Council last evening received a letter from the St. Kilda Council purging a united effort to secure increased benefits for the' relief worker.
The council agreed with the Mayor.
Councillor J. Hodges and the Mayor drew attention to penalties that the new rates of pay imposed on certain sections of the unemployed—particularly the married man with one child and the man who had left the town to live in the. country .so as to secure cheaper rent. The new rates were supposed to be helpful, but in certain cases had come as an aggravation. The Mayor said- that a man receiving 26s 3d a week '■ in a town was paid only 19s if lie lived in the country. It did not matter where he worked— it was where he lived that seemed to count. That, to the Mayor's mind, was only going to encourage the workers to flock back to the towns, with two or three/families living in the one house.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 30, 5 February 1935, Page 11
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